PPLive has a paper published on SIGCOMM'08, showing the performance of its P2P VoD solution. The title is
Challenges, design and analysis of a large-scale p2p-vod system On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:21 PM, abhishek desai <abh...@gmail.com> wrote: > There have been some attempts at standardizing p2p streaming, > http://tools.ietf.org/id/ppsp > http://goalbit.sourceforge.net/ > > And the NextShare project (based on tribbler) by P2P Next Consortium > is another step towards it. I am not sure of how successful it has > been as there is no much news about it lately and their current status > is not publicly available. > but considering the reducing costs of CDN bandwidth year after year, > does p2p streaming and p2p VOD offer significant savings ? > other than PPLive and PPStream in the chinese market there is sopcast > which I believe is popular outside china, but i see very little > activity on the forums. > > -abhi > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Wang Danqi <beyond...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you look at the situation in Chinese, you will see that p2p video > > streaming is really successful. There are two major P2P video streaming > > provider, PPLive and PPStream, and many other similar companies, such as > > Thunder (a.k.a xunlei), Funshion. They support both live streaming and > > video-on-demand. Their clients, especially those most popular ones, like > > PPLive, PPStream and Thrunder, are installed on nearly every PC in China. > > They have attracted a large population of users and their solutions are > > definitely cheaper than those using CDN only. > > > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 6:32 AM, David Barrett <dbarr...@quinthar.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Is p2p video stream doing quite well? > >> > >> I remember there were a few options back in the day (PPLive?, Octoshape? > >> I can't remember the names). And I know that Akamai is quietly doing > >> a *lot* of P2P video streaming. And I keep hearing rumors of > >> progressive download/playback Torrent clients (I know we did this at > >> Swoosh with rather disappointing results). > >> > >> Adam - I don't think Littleshoot does live streaming, but does it do > >> progressive download and playback of audio/video? > >> > >> So the technology is definitely available and has been for some time. > >> But I sorta agree with Abhishek that it hasn't really taken off. Like, > >> even the torrent apps that do support it only do so as a rather hidden > >> or experimental feature. Why hasn't it become the default mode? > >> > >> -david > >> > >> On 02/19/2011 07:43 AM, Henry Sinnreich wrote: > >> > Naively speaking, P2P video seems to be doing quite well. > >> > Maybe the problem is with the p2p forums? > >> > > >> > Henry > >> > > >> > > >> > On 2/19/11 12:52 AM, "abhishek desai"<abh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> >> When I go through the many of p2p streaming software forums I find > >> >> very little activity happening. A number of p2p streaming softwares > >> >> are dead, many dont have a website anymore. Is the p2p video > streaming > >> >> technology dying ? Any reason why this has happened ? What is the > >> >> future of P2P video streaming technologies ? > >> >> > >> >> rgds, > >> >> abhi > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> p2p-hackers mailing list > >> >> p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > >> >> http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > p2p-hackers mailing list > >> > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > >> > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > >> _______________________________________________ > >> p2p-hackers mailing list > >> p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > >> http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > > > > > > > > -- > > Best wishes, > > > > Wang Danqi > > > > _______________________________________________ > > p2p-hackers mailing list > > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > > > > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > -- Best wishes, Wang Danqi
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